As a successful architect, Maxim skilfully and talentedly manages his subordinates and continues to achieve his professional goals. Despite his career successes, his personal life is far from ideal: he is dating Tamara, but continues to love Larysa, whom he dated in school. When Maxim learns that his beloved woman has died, he goes to his native village to see her off on her last journey, and then unexpectedly learns that he has a daughter, Yevgenia, there. Not wanting to leave the teenage girl in a remote village, Maxim takes her with him to the city, where Zhenya begins attending a local school. However, the girl finds it difficult to get along not only with her new classmates, but also with her own father.